F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 40

shoes and raiment for our brave soldiers. Neither we would have been able to add
very to our success following General Protection and his/her men that had a
open country in front of them, until us we were prepared well for hocking them
in another battle. However, when George found his/her ready army him,
him directly moved on the enemy, and his/her soldiers were in the best of
spirits, for us we had General Protezione and his/her men in a position where
he would be forced to fight against another battle with the advantages,
in our favor. I don't now say, my child that George would have won
this battle, but fighting against him he would have shown the enemy
true weakness, and it put him/it in a very bad position. But the
government, as if more it will promote the prejudices of
statesmen that to preserve the honor of our arm, resolved not to
you leave that George fights against another battle. Yes, my child, removed him/it from
his/her command, and that, also, when he was near above with the enemy, and
you/he/she was waiting himself/herself/itself for every day to take it departs him/it in battle. I don't remember
that history records another example where the commander of a
manages that had earned only a great victory it was so disgraced from his
just government.

The enemy could not inflict a more severe hit on our brave
manages that was done by this action of ours really government. A feeling of
disappointment and the pain crossed the lines and the brave men
who had fought under and you/he/she had loved their commander, he/she cried to the
injustice that has removed him from them. It the wish, in duration, is done
clear, my child, that the government committed a great crime against
our army from this action. You/he/she cannot be the wisdom to remove a commander, this way
popular with his/her army as George B. McClellan was, especially when
that army was in the eve of a battle. Such action is sure to excite
dissatisfaction, and the dissatisfaction destroys discipline. Neither it owes
such commander is removed to so critical once unless the
government is prepared to fill his/her place with one with peer, if not